Target Audience for Thrillers Similar to Mine

The target audience is defined as a particular group at which a product of advertisement or film is aimed. Our specific target audience is teenagers aged between the ages of 15-18. The reason we chose this specific group for our thriller is because we as teenagers between those ages can give our personal view on what we like to see in a thriller and therefore accurately represent an opening sequence/film that will be enjoyed by people of roughly the same age group. 

In a standard 15 film the following can be found:

•   strong violence
•  frequent strong language (e.g. 'f***').
•   portrayals of sexual activity
•   strong verbal references to sex
•   sexual nudity
•   brief scenes of sexual violence or verbal references to sexual violence
•   discriminatory language or behaviour
•   drug taking

Trillers are aimed at teenagers or young adults because people of that age seek excitement. Triller films offer complex story lines that are interesting and include a possibility of violence.  

Here are few examples of thrillers with the same target audience as my thriller (15+):

• The Roommate 
• Paranormal Activity 4 
• The Sixth Sense 
• Shifty
• Shutter Island 
• Orphan